Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-03
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Mexican government has pensioned
mother who towns up to twenty-eight liV-
ing children.
A type writer warranted to cost SIS and
cause no divorce court scandals has been in
vented at Birmingham, England
Topeka is erecting over 1000 resi-
dences, yet there is not house in that city to
rent. So says Topeka newspaper.
A Cincinnati phrenologist has felt Sulli-
vans head and found him not to be of an sg-
gressive disposition. The phrenologist is Ger
tainly to be congra ulate d.
Western Dakota is to have New En-
gland colony, with a town named New England
City, where the streets Will bear the names OF
the New England states and their public men.
Michigan woman has recovered
% cent verdict against man who muddied the
kitchen floor with his feet. Had he been a
Chicagoan, 1t is estimated the verdict would
have been $25,OO
A. G. Spaulding, president of the Chi
cage bage ball club, is said to be worth over
$250,CO0. He has made his money from MS
sporting goods busi ess. He has big factory
in Michigan which turns out base ball bats by
the million.
The latest form of drunkenness has
developed itself In Northwestern Penn, where
young man has formed the habit of intoxicating
himself on gas which he inhales from oil wells.
1t is though he may have formed the habit by
too persistent reading of the oil newspapers.
In San Francisco there are four jour-
nails regularly published in Chinese characters.
These appear weekly and have a circulation of
2500 copies. According to the Chinese method
good printer can print 400 sheets day. Five
days work re therefore required to get out an
edition of 1000 copies.
The Prohibitlonists Of New Jersey are
making preparations to carry on q lively cam
paign next year, They intend to establish pro-
hibItion papers in thirteen of the largest towns,
which will receive editorial articles and tenn
perance news from Central bureau. Each
paper, however, is to have its own local editor.
The profits, If there are any, are to be used in
extending the business.
Last Saturday the Rev. T. H. Dabney
of the little town of Floris, Iowa, left home,
telling his wife that he was going to Dunvilie
to capture some converts, taking change OF
clothing for that purpose. 1t has since trans
PRED that he elOped with Anna Lang, the sew
enteen year old sister of his wife. His wife
mad known OF improper intimacy, ana mao &C
cused him of II, and he had promised to do bet
ter in future. Nothing has been heard of the
runaways.
In the MichiIan Dakin bribery investi-
CATION 1t was stated that in the room of the
municipal corporations committee of the House
hung sim, ''" g smoke; if we don't up goes
your bill" Also in the Senate judiciary com
mittee room was the suggestion, The tender
of cigars facilitates business" If no cigars
were carried by those wishing to influence leg
isation in these roOWs, the cigar box was
pa sed for 81. 1t was stated that money gen
legislation.
Sign-wording has been reduced to a
science in the land of the gentle Chinese. 1t
is common sight in the city of Pekin to see
sign boards bearing inscriptions like these;
"Shop of Heaven Sent Luck" Mutton OPP OF
Morning Twilight" "The Nine FeliCities Pro-
longed," "FloWers Rise to the Milky Way"
charcoal shop calls itself the fountain OF
Beauty" and place for the sales OF Goals In,
dulges in the title Of Heavenly Embroidery"
and 1.-The Thrice Righteous" Is the cognomen
of an opium shop.
Mr.. Ruskin doesn't like bicycles. 81
not only object he says, "but am quite pre-
pared to spend all my best bad language in
Reproduction of bi-ri-and four i've six or
seven cycles, and every other COntrivance or
invention for superseding human feet on Gods
ground. To walk, to run. to leap and TO dance
are the virtues of the human body, and neither
to stride on stills, wriggle OD wheels or bangle
on ropes, and nothing In the training of the hu-
man mind with the body will ever supersede
the appointed Gods ways OF slow walking and
hard working"
1t is said that when Alexander Mitchell
was banker in Milwaukee there was once
run on his bank. On the second day of the run
an old Scotchman entered the bank, covered
with mud, and carrying a pair of saddtebags
lie could not gain access to Mr.. Mitchell on &C
count of the crowd, but he shouted out TO MIN,
holding up the saddlebags: "Aleck, mon, l
heard u bod room on yer bank, and bring
We all have, mon-2000 IN gold" The crowd
Contemplated the old SCOtchman for moment
and then began to drop out of the line, and in
less than one hour the run had ceased.
The water supply OF the various Euro
pean capitals affords some interesting facts,
not the least notable of which is that Rome
heads the list with her 2O4 OOO,O 600 Hters of pure
water-a liter being little more than one and
three -fourths pints-every twenty four hours,
ant can thus dispose of nearly 600 lters per day.
London comes next, for every one of whose
population of rising 4,0OO,OO6 there are 300
iiters per day. Paris takes the third place, heI
population amounting to 2, 49, 24, and each in
habitant having for alimentary purposes fifty
eight Iiters per day and for secondary use 1853,
or total of 227. Berlin has 13 2,2s3 inhah1t-
ants for each of whom there are 40 liters daily;
Vienna, TO- 172 inhabitants, with 100 liters each
per day; Naples, 463, I72, with 200 liters, and
Turin, 27S, 59S, with ninety hters head every
twenty four hours.